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Richard Zhang

Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - 3:45pm

Fulton Room
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06510

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Working Group Events

April 3, 2020

Medicine and Health

Mary Fissell, Johns Hopkins University, will share drafts of the introduction and Chapter 2 of a book in progress about Aristotle’s Masterpiece, now tentatively titled Before Sex Ed.
Lauren Kassell, Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Cambridge, will provide the comment.
April 14, 2020

Early Modern Science

J.B. Shank will present his WIP titled “Europeans Telling of the World’s Beginnings Around 1700. Between Science and Religion, Prose, Verse, and Scripture, and Image and Text.”

These papers will be precirculated to the group. Please RSVP to the Early Modern Working Group Coordinators at least a week before the event.

Megan Piorko mpiorko1@student.gsu.edu
Katie Reinhart kmr@chstm.org

Abstract & bio attached
April 15, 2020

History and Philosophy of Science

NOTE SPECIAL DATE
Epstein, The Ant Trap
TBA, selections from Ch. 10-16
April 21, 2020

Technology

Emily Gibson, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, National Science Foundation, "Technology and Policy: Applied research and engineering at the National Science Foundation during the 1970s"
April 28, 2020

Earth and Environmental Sciences

We will discuss a chapter in progress by Aaron Thomas of Mississippi State University. More details will follow.
May 1, 2020

Medicine and Health

TBA
May 7, 2020

Biological Sciences

Maile Arvin (University of Utah) will join us to discuss "Conditionally Caucasian: Polynesian Racial Classification in Early Twentieth-Century Eugenics and Physical Anthropology," chapter two of her recently published book Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
May 12, 2020

Early Modern Science

Simon Werrett will present his WIP titled "Kitchen Oeconomy: Food, Thrift, and Experiment in Early Modern England"

These papers will be precirculated to the group. Please RSVP to the Early Modern Working Group Coordinators at least a week before the event.

Megan Piorko mpiorko1@student.gsu.edu
Katie Reinhart kmr@chstm.org
May 13, 2020

History and Philosophy of Science

TBA

CANCELLED- Richard Zhang - Title TBD

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